The Moonlight Awards: 1949

We've come to the end of our second decade, and it's a pretty good year for films: Alec Guinness breaks out with a multi-role tour de force; Orson Welles delivers another memorable star turn; and a pair of Japanese directors deliver two very disparate postwar classics. But which one film has best managed to stand the test of time? Join Rachel Schaevitz and Aaron Keck as they discuss the year in cinema, obsessive cinematographers, zither scores, Freudianism, gender politics, vases, cuckoo clocks, and the brilliance of Joseph Cotten - and then dig into the data and the numbers (and our expert panel votes) to identify the best picture of 1949. The nominees (with apologies to Stray Dog) are Adam's Rib, Kind Hearts & Coronets, Late Spring, The Third Man, and White Heat. Who wins the Moonlight?